On 12/17/07, Rick Mann <rmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2007, at 4:59 PM, NightStrike wrote: > > > Why would binaries on different platforms be identical? > > The toolchain on each host platform is built with identical steps, > from the same source distro, targetting an embedded Xscale processor. > > The source code does not use any OS APIs, just some things in newlib > (built as part of the toolchain). > > The resulting binary should, in theory, be identical, regardless of > the host platform. Ah, you are cross compiling. I misunderstood. So on both platforms, you are building a cross compiler, gcc 4.2 You are then using that cross compiler that you build on each platform to build your program, and the resulting executable is different. Hmm.... Interesting scenario.
